noun
- A garment size for short or slender women.
adjective
- Very small.
- usage: "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"
- synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, tiny, flyspeck
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